Practice Education Facilitator

NHS AfC: Band 7

Please ensure that you meet the person specification before applying for this post.

If you are an internal candidate and would like to apply for this vacancy as a secondment, please refer to the Temporary Post Policy.

Please note that applications are accepted only by completion of our application form. We cannot accept CV's. In cases where we receive a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close any vacancies prior to the specified closing date; therefore you are advised to submit your completed application form as early as possible.

The Trust are committed to ensuring every employee of the Trust will receive a salary in line with the Living Wage Foundation in light of the value we place on Trust employees and their welfare.

For conditional offers made after the 1st April 2016 to external candidates you will be required to reimburse the Trust for the cost of your Disclosure and Barring Service Check where required as part of your employment checks via your monthly salary upon commencement.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic and forward thinking Trust.

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s leading cancer centres, providing high quality care to the population of Merseyside and Cheshire and beyond.

Consistently rated one of the best-performing hospitals in the country, we deliver compassionate and effective, specialist care and in February 2017 were rated as ‘Outstanding’ by The Care Quality Commission.

We provide a comprehensive range of inpatient care, advanced radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other systemic anti-cancer therapies including gene therapies and immunotherapies for the treatment of solid tumours and blood cancers. We are also the only facility in the UK providing low-energy proton beam therapy to treat rare eye cancers.

We are currently embarking on an £162 million investment in facilities including a new cancer hospital in the heart of Liverpool due to open in 2020. Based on the same thriving research and healthcare campus as the University of Liverpool and Royal Liverpool University Hospital, the new hospital will ensure every patient receives truly outstanding care and can access the most advanced treatments and clinical trials for generations to come.

The Clinical Education Department is looking for an experienced Practice Education Facilitator to join the Clinical Education Department in promoting quality multiprofessional learning within the Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated Registered Healthcare Practitioner with a minimum of a 1st level degree, three years post qualifying experience and relevant level seven qualifications (or working towards). The post is available as a 12 month secondment or as a permanent position.

The successful individual will have exceptional organisational and administrative skills and well developed interpersonal skills with the ability to foster good working relationships at all levels. This an ideal opportunity for a health care professional with relevant expertise and a keen interest in education, to support and ensure the quality of student experience in practice.

The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality multiprofessional learning environments within the Trust and will be required to work locally within services where interprofessional learning opportunities can be promoted. The post holder will be required to support the breadth of the student experience, which may require cross boundary working, and contribute to the delivery of quality support for learning in practice.

The Trust takes an active responsibility for ensuring systems, policies and processes are in place to safeguard Children and Adults, and support the national and local agenda around safeguarding, including local arrangements for the protection of children and adults at risk.

This job is unlikely to attract a Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship (formerly a work permit). Applications from candidates who require Tier 2 immigration status to work in the UK may not be considered if there are a sufficient number of other suitable candidates. To apply for a Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship, employers need to demonstrate that they are unable to recruit a resident worker before recruiting an individual overseas.

If you are successful you will be invited for an interview via email. Please ensure you regularly check your emails following your application and let us know if you have any problems. If you would prefer for us to communicate with you in a different way contact the Recruitment Team on 0151 482 7866.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to apply for this position and participate in our recruitment process please contact the Recruitment Team at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

The Trust is committed to promoting a flexible working environment supporting equality and diversity and the health and wellbeing of all our employees. The Trust aims for a workforce demography representative of the community we serve.

The Trust takes active responsibility for meeting national guidance and legal requirements in relation to our Safeguarding Policy, including local arrangements for the protection of adults at risk.

The Trust is proud to be a ‘smoke-free’ NHS employer. Applicants should be aware that that if successful in gaining employment with the Trust adherence to the Smoking Policy is contractual and staff are not permitted to smoke either during working hours or when recognisable as an employee.

The Trust is committed to providing high standards of both patient and staff experience. To support us in doing this the Trust, in partnership with Trade Unions has developed and embedded key values and behaviours that all staff are required to demonstrate throughout their employment. The Trust's values and behaviours support the Trust Vision 'to provide the best cancer care to the people we serve' and our Mission 'to improve health and wellbeing through compassionate, safe and effective cancer care'.

New entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first point of the relevant payband.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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